Can anybody remember a kids BBC TV show in the 1960's where they used to re-enact each Grand prix using slot cars? This was before live TV coverage of every race, except of the British GP and Monaco. I have had a search through earlier threads but could find nothing.
I seem to remember the name of the show as Serendipity, but may be wrong, as I often am. I cannot remember the names of the presenters but I have a mental picture of one of them.
BBC kids TV re-enactment of GP using slot cars
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Lee Shells
, Mar 11 2006 07:34
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Posted 11 March 2006 - 11:08
I seem to remember that Tom Tom was presented by Jack Hargreaves and Fred Dinenage, and some bird or other. A bit like How? - or could it even have been a spin-off from How?
The slot car recreations were well done for the unsophisticated sixties. I can still remember Jack Brabham's Repco-Brabham BT19, so it must have been on in '66.
The slot car recreations were well done for the unsophisticated sixties. I can still remember Jack Brabham's Repco-Brabham BT19, so it must have been on in '66.
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Posted 11 March 2006 - 11:52
Thanks for that gents.
So it was Tom Tom and the presenter I had in mind was Jeremy Carrad. I shall now spend some quality time browsing tv.cream.
Presenters definitely not Jack Hargreaves or Fred Dinenage. How can I be sure? Apart from what it says on tv.cream, they were on ITV and I was not permitted to watch such a subversive commercial channel. That was not such a difficult thing to live with as I was surprisingly free of other restrictions, having become a teenager in January 66. I was allowed to go to a pop concert at the age of ten with my seven years older sister and her friends. Featured the Kinks, Hollies, Dave Clark Five, Searchers and others. The Kinks were on first and blew them away. The Hollies were on last and afterwards hung out of the windows of the hotel opposite the theatre throwing signed pictures down to the hordes of kids below.
I think Jack Hargreaves was a senior executive for whichever TV company had the franchise for the south coast in the 60's.
So it was Tom Tom and the presenter I had in mind was Jeremy Carrad. I shall now spend some quality time browsing tv.cream.
Presenters definitely not Jack Hargreaves or Fred Dinenage. How can I be sure? Apart from what it says on tv.cream, they were on ITV and I was not permitted to watch such a subversive commercial channel. That was not such a difficult thing to live with as I was surprisingly free of other restrictions, having become a teenager in January 66. I was allowed to go to a pop concert at the age of ten with my seven years older sister and her friends. Featured the Kinks, Hollies, Dave Clark Five, Searchers and others. The Kinks were on first and blew them away. The Hollies were on last and afterwards hung out of the windows of the hotel opposite the theatre throwing signed pictures down to the hordes of kids below.
I think Jack Hargreaves was a senior executive for whichever TV company had the franchise for the south coast in the 60's.
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Posted 11 March 2006 - 12:03
At the time, our old 9-inch Bush TV would only get one channel - BBC! I think we finally got ITV when that one breathed its last in 1966.Originally posted by Lee Shells
I was not permitted to watch such a subversive commercial channel.
Yes, he was. It was Southern Television.Originally posted by Lee Shells
I think Jack Hargreaves was a senior executive for whichever TV company had the franchise for the south coast in the 60's.
